This site is dedicated to supporting PHP on Microsoft Windows. It also supports ports of PHP extensions or features as well as providing special builds for the various Windows architectures.
If you like to build your own PHP binaries, instructions can be found on the Wiki.
PECL extensions for Windows is being worked on. Windows DLL can be downloaded right from the PECL website.
If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP.
Please use the Apache HTTP Server builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC16 and VS17 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. We use their binaries to build the Apache SAPIs.
With Apache, using the apache2handler SAPI, you have to use the Thread Safe (TS) versions of PHP.
More recent versions of PHP are built with VS16 or VS17 (Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 compiler respectively) and include improvements in performance and stability.
- The VS16 and VS17 builds require to have the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 x64 or x86 installed
TS refers to multithread capable builds. NTS refers to single thread only builds. Use case for TS binaries involves interaction with a multithreaded SAPI and PHP loaded as a module into a web server. For NTS binaries the widespread use case is interaction with a web server through the FastCGI protocol, utilizing no multithreading (but also for example CLI).
Profile Guided Optimization is an optimization feature available in Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler that allows you to optimize an output file based on profiling data collected during test runs of the application or module.
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PHP 7 provides full 64-bit support. The x64 builds of PHP 7 support native 64-bit integers, LFS, 64-bit memory_limit and much more.
x64 builds are recommended (almost all Windows installations support x64).
PHP 7.1+ supports long and UTF-8 paths. See the manual for details.
Revision: (January 01 1970, 01:00:00)
WARNING! These builds are experimental and require a CPU with the AVX instruction set.